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A comment on Sony DD-1EX Electronic Book Player. Parent comment

Re:Sony DD-1EX Electronic Book Player by mechagodzilla on Monday February 22, 2021 @03:44PM (#26230319)
It's an interesting observation that there wasn't really a viable market for an ebook device with large-capacity, expensive write-only media - it's not that publishers didn't want to sell e-books, or that readers didn't want a library-on-a-CD, but that there was no good way to sell individual books since customers couldn't burn their own CDs, and didn't want to carry 50 CDs with them.
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Re:Sony DD-1EX Electronic Book Player by dragonwriter on Monday February 22, 2021 @05:14PM (#26231397)
> It's an interesting observation that there wasn't really a viable market for an ebook device with large-capacity, expensive write-only media

Or even, perhaps more relevantly, with read-only media.

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Re:Sony DD-1EX Electronic Book Player by reaperducer on Monday February 22, 2021 @05:20PM (#26231447)
Encarta could have been the killer app.
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